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Ignite

ignite

ignite: easily run Firecracker VMs

Synopsis

Ignite is a containerized Firecracker microVM administration tool. It can build VM images, spin VMs up/down and manage multiple VMs efficiently.

Administration is divided into three subcommands: image Manage base images for VMs kernel Manage VM kernels vm Manage VMs

Ignite also supports the same commands as the Docker CLI. Combining an Image and a Kernel gives you a runnable VM.

Example usage:

$ ignite run weaveworks/ignite-ubuntu \
    --cpus 2 \
    --memory 2GB \
    --ssh \
    --name my-vm
$ ignite images
$ ignite kernels
$ ignite ps
$ ignite logs my-vm
$ ignite ssh my-vm

Options

  -h, --help                   help for ignite
      --ignite-config string   Ignite configuration path; refer to the 'Ignite Configuration' docs for more details
      --log-level loglevel     Specify the loglevel for the program (default info)
  -q, --quiet                  The quiet mode allows for machine-parsable output by printing only IDs

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